{"id":3294,"date":"2025-10-14T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:54:14","slug":"lubbock-residents-must-now-pay-50-permit-fee-for-alarm-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3294\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock residents must now pay $50 permit fee for alarm systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: The above video shows the top headlines from the morning of October 13, 2025.<\/p>\n

LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a>\u2014 The Lubbock Police Department is reminding citizens of a recent change to the City of Lubbock\u2019s False Alarm Ordinance, which now requires alarm owners to pay a $50 permit fee.<\/p>\n

LPD announced that a new change took effect on October 1, following approval by the Lubbock City Council. For more information, residents can visit the Lubbock police website<\/a> and navigate to the \u2018Crime & Safety\u2019 section, specifically under \u2018False Alarm Information.\u2019 This section provides detailed instructions on the permitting process. The updated ordinance now requires that all alarm systems have a valid permit in place.<\/p>\n

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According to a press release, alarm holders will receive a letter from the LPD\u2019s records department notifying them of the permit fee related to their alarm. The letter will provide detailed information on how alarm owners can make the payment for the permit, as well as contact information for any questions they may have.<\/p>\n

An example of the letter citizens may receive can be found above. <\/p>\n

LPD officials state that this ordinance was introduced to improve the allocation of LPD department resources. The aim is to reduce false alarm responses and enable officers to focus on genuine emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: The above video shows the top headlines from the morning of October 13, 2025. LUBBOCK, Texas\u2014 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}